The media spent two years telling you Trump's feud with DeSantis was permanent.
They were wrong.
Trump just told the New York Post that DeSantis is "very good" – and what DeSantis did to earn that is something no other governor in America has done.
DeSantis Names the Airport Trump Flies Into Every Time He Goes Home
Trump didn't volunteer the compliment unprompted.
He was asked whether DeSantis could be his next attorney general.
That seat matters right now.
Pam Bondi was fired in April after Trump grew frustrated with her handling of the Epstein files.
Todd Blanche – Trump's former personal criminal defense attorney – is running the Justice Department in an acting capacity while Trump decides who gets the job permanently.
Trump's answer on DeSantis was warm and specific.
"Ron's good. He's a friend of mine. He just named an airport after me," Trump told the New York Post.
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That airport is Palm Beach International – the one Trump lands at every single time he travels to Mar-a-Lago.
Florida lawmakers voted to spend $2.75 million rebranding it as Donald J. Trump International Airport.
The FAA approved the renaming.
The Palm Beach County commission approved the trademark deal with Trump's companies.
DeSantis signed the legislation in March.
The name takes effect July 1.
"That's a great honor," Trump said.
He meant it.
Trump Called It Years Ago and Nobody Believed Him
Here's what the media won't tell you.
In 2023, DeSantis was calling Trump's attacks "juvenile" and running a presidential campaign against him.
The press declared the Republican Party fractured.
They ran headlines about DeSantis as the future of conservatism beyond Trump.
Look at where things stand today.
DeSantis dropped out of the presidential race in January 2024, endorsed Trump, and has spent every month since proving the endorsement was genuine.
He signed legislation renaming a 125-mile stretch of State Road 80 as the President Donald J. Trump Highway.
He secured a 2.63-acre parcel in Miami-Dade County – right next to the Freedom Tower – for the future Trump presidential library.
He embraced Make America Healthy Again and launched Florida's own version in January.
And now he's put Trump's name on the airport Trump uses to come home.
Trump was right about this reconciliation all along.
The feud ended on his terms.
What This Moment Actually Means
The media wants to reduce this to a career transaction – DeSantis auctions flattery for a cabinet job.
That's the wrong frame entirely.
What you're watching is something that hasn't happened in modern American politics.
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JFK became the first president to have a major international airport named after him – but only after his assassination.
Reagan got Washington National Airport renamed in his honor in 1998 – nearly a decade after leaving office, after Congress pushed the legislation through.
DeSantis just put a sitting president's name on a major gateway airport while that president is actively in office and flying into it regularly.
That's not a transaction.
That's a statement.
It says: Trump won.
Not just the election.
The argument.
Every Republican governor in America is watching how DeSantis handled this.
They're watching Trump respond by calling him "very good" in the context of a cabinet vacancy.
They're taking notes.
The critics who told you Trump's coalition was fracturing, that DeSantis represented a post-Trump Republican Party, that the insults had gone too far to repair – every single one of them was wrong.
Trump knew it.
He told you so.
Sources:
- "Trump Doesn't Rule Out Tapping DeSantis as His Attorney General," New York Post, June 3, 2026.
- "Trump Keeps DeSantis In Mix For Attorney General While Praising Blanche," YourNews, June 3, 2026.
- "Trump and DeSantis Move Closer to Full Political Reconciliation," MSN, April 15, 2026.
- "US Interim Attorney General Todd Blanche Calls Speculation Surrounding Bondi's Firing 'Simply Not True,'" Fox News, April 2, 2026.
- "Here's How Airports Get Named After Presidents," Jalopnik, March 3, 2026.
